A brilliant road map for discovering history, science, civilization, and the human condition, this engaging record recommends must-read books: those so revealing about times and places that they take the reader beyond day-to-day concerns into a magic realm of knowledge and imagination. From Arthur Koestler’s take on the universe and Barbara Tuchman’s view on 14th-century life to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s impressions of American morality and Robert Fisk’s analysis of the West’s history of intervention in the Middle East, this engaging account is an idiosyncratic and endlessly interesting tour of the world through literature.
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Holocaust Literature: An Introduction
$1,168 -
Adventures in Feminist Dramaturgy: The Road Less Traveled
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The Language of Surrealism
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The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland: Medieval to 1707
$6,840 -
The Canon
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Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth After Postmodernism
$1,888 -
Six Metaphysical Poets: A Concise Critical Introduction and Innovative Interdisciplinary Reading of Selected Mystographical Poem
$943 -
The Aesthetics of Children’s Poetry: A Study of Children’s Verse in English
$6,748 -
The Hardships of the English Laws in Relation to Wives by Sarah Chapone
$6,748 -
Acts of Modernity: The Historical Novel and Effective Communication, 1814-1901
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Ezra Pound and the Career of Modern Criticism: Professional Attention
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Classical Philosophers on Literature: Plato, Aristotle, Longinus
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Ian Mcewan
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Henry James, Consciousness, and the Evolution of the Novel
$6,748 -
Literature, Science and Religion in Constantijn Huygens’ Ooghentroost
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Modernism, Internationalism and the Russian Revolution
$5,400 -
Critical Practice: Theorists and Creativity
$1,033 -
The Timelessness of Proust
$595 -
Golden Age Spain on the Jacobean Stage: John Fletcher’s Reading and Writing of Cervantes & Co.
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William T. Vollmann: Writing America’s Other Histories
$4,725